SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Every year, tens of thousands of young women opt to freeze their eggs, an expensive and sometimes painful procedure. As more Americans postpone childbearing, the numbers are growing.But there are many unknowns: What is the optimal donor age for...

Georgina RannardClimate and science reporterKate Stephens and Tony JolliffeBBC climate and science teamTony Jolliffe/BBC NewsThe team has a year to finish their research. By the end, their search for answers will probably end up destroying the samples.But China has...

Getty ImagesThe NHS in England is planning "previously unthinkable" cuts to try to balance the books, health bosses say.Services including diabetes care for young people, rehab centres and talking therapies are in the firing line, according to NHS Providers,...

In 2023, sewage plants in Maryland started to make a troubling discovery. Harmful “forever chemicals” were contaminating the state’s sewage, much of which is turned into fertilizer and spread on farmland.To protect its food and drinking water, Maryland has...

Researchers from MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a class of peptides expressed in pancreatic...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes of Health were advised to scrub their grants of any reference to mRNA. Around the country,...

A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gun shot wound, clutching his side.Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands out supplies to the homeless through her nonprofit, found him and pulled out her phone, preparing...

Insects are all around us – an ant on the sidewalk, a bee buzzing by, a butterfly floating on the breeze – and they shape the world we experience. They pollinate flowering plants, decompose waste,...

India now plans to launch astronauts to space no sooner than 2027, shifting the goal post for the country's first human spaceflight yet again.Indian space minister Jitendra Singh announced the latest delay during a press conference Tuesday (May 6),...

Enabling & Support 08/05/2025 1497 views 17 likesFor the first time, two spacecraft in orbit were aligned in formation with millimetre precision and maintained their relative position for several hours without any control from the ground. Proba-3...